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NEWS: Virginian Teen Suspended over Names in 'Death Note'

That's a little extreme. I think it's ridiculous that people are getting all worked up just because of Death Note. It's a great anime, but come on - it's a work of fiction.

Better hide my Death Note notebook

It's kind of funny, call me a pessimist but the first time I heard about the premise of DN I thought, 'If this ever gets really popular there's gonna be so many issues with death threats and such...' I don't think it's too surprising. Even the creator had to know stuff like this would happen if the series became popular, it just sort of goes with the territory. CN certainly knows it, considering DN's midnight timeslot.

Honestly, I don't see why people do this. Yeah, it's a book where whoever's name you write in it dies. But it only works in the story, their basically making a hit list. This is a perfect example of: Stupidity.
It's a great manga & anime, but seriously, why even bother trying to create one of your own? You need a shinigami to do that.

I'm glad I have the entire manga series before it eventually gets banned from shelves (it's banned from China because of this, if it keeps up here then it'll be banned here too)

This seems a little over dramatic. It's not a hit list. By writing their names down, he's not expecting them to die. Even if it wasn't a fictional animated series, you wouldn't be able to just make one on your own. Assuming he understands those concepts, then his only crime is writing down the names of people he's mad at. If he was insane, or mad enough to kill, he probably would have spent less time making a Death Note and more time actually killing people.

You do realize that Death Notes don't work...right?

People like this kid are what's wrong with our society. I personally don't think he was any serious threat. Death Notes don't do anything and unless he was writing "has his flesh melted off his face before forty tonnes of concrete land on him as his house burns down" after every name then there isn't much proof that he was a serious threat. But because of the way people are obviously going to react he's ruining things for everyone. After people do stupid shit like this the schools go overboard on "taking appropriate measures" and ban things that really don't relate to what happened at all and just focus on cracking down so hard on the other students that they'd be more likely to lash out at authority and teachers than before.

Honestly, I don't see why people do this. Yeah, it's a book where whoever's name you write in it dies. But it only works in the story, their basically making a hit list. This is a perfect example of: Stupidity.
It's a great manga & anime, but seriously, why even bother trying to create one of your own? You need a shinigami to do that.

I'm glad I have the entire manga series before it eventually gets banned from shelves (it's banned from China because of this, if it keeps up here then it'll be banned here too)

I think this whole thing is a crazy over-reaction. Do they apply the same consequeces to those who write the names down of fellow stutdents in a regular note book?

Am I the only one who owns a deathnote to write down my assignments? Important date, etc?

And sure it comes down to an us knowing and them not. But if they took a moment to educate themseleves instead of just going by the first thing that pops up in google....they'd realize how stupid they were.

Excuse me, minor nitpick: Nobody has been able to identify if Ann Coulter is either of the male or female species. Or it's bi-sexual or a post-op.